Seattle Opera will open its doors for its annual Open House on Saturday, October 4, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM at the Opera Center.

Public figures are obligated to behave in ways worthy of emulation. They should consciously use their visibility to edify, ...

Required Reading This week: a new museum of Chumash history and culture, Sally Ride gets the doc she deserves, the future of fireflies, the beauty of “ugly” Instagram cakes, and much more.

In an excerpt from her new book, Mann explains how blind chance steered her fortune from a young age .

Legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell, globally known for their history-making Apollo missions, enjoyed a friendship that spanned decades.

Meet Sally Ride! This nine-year-old dog is awaiting her forever home at Pasco County Animal Services.

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, a 26-year-old factory worker turned parachutist, strapped into a capsule and changed ...

Quarters released through the program have featured civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, astronaut Sally Ride, writer Maya Angelou and Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the ...

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she flew aboard STS-7 in 1983. Her second and last space mission was STS-41G in 1984. A physicist with a Ph.D., she joined the astronaut corps ...

James Lovell, the pioneering U.S. astronaut whose two dramatic missions to the moon included Apollo 13, the nearly disastrous trip that captivated the world and decades later inspired a triumphant ...

Fans only have days to watch the film, frequently described as one of the best rom-coms in movie history, as it's leaving BBC ...

Ferraro's July 19 speech accepting the Democratic vice presidential nomination as delivered at the Democratic National Convention, in San Francisco.) ...